Apple working on improved Exchange support for iPhone — Apple is working on improving the iPhone's support of Microsoft's Exchange email platform, which could finally deliver true syncing capabilities, a new company job posting has revealed. — The undated listing seeks a "motivated …

Apple's'Podfather' Now Aims to Revive A Wilting Palm — In mid-July, as Palm Inc. was putting the finishing touches on its new $99 Centro smart phone, the gadget's development team received a stark message: It wasn't good enough. — The warning was delivered by Jon Rubinstein …

How Palm Can Beat Apple's iPhone: The Flash Phone — Palm, which practically invented the smartphone, is in a rut: its products have hardly improved in years, competitors like Research In Motion and Apple are stealing potential customers in droves, and its stock is in the toilet.

Opera files antitrust complaint with the EU — Urges Microsoft to give consumers a genuine choice of standards—compliant Web browsers — Opera Software ASA, the only company that can put the Web on any device, filed a complaint with the European Commission yesterday which is aimed …

The Top 10 Worst Gadgets of 2007 — To responsibly critique art, wrote W. H. Auden, requires "an inclination to praise rather than blame, and regret when a complete rejection is required...." But we've done our share of praising this year, and instead of another round-up of the products …

2007 Year-End Zeitgeist — We're bidding adieu to 2007 with a look back at the breaking news, the big events and the must-have gadgets that captivated us this year (give or take a few weeks; we compile this list by early December). To get a glimpse of what's been on our collective consciousness …

YES, VIRGINIA, THERE IS A HYPER-V BETA — With a tip of the cap to Francis Church's famous 1897 editorial, I'm very proud that the team has come through just like St. Nick. Today we announced the public availability of a beta of Hyper-V, the hypervisor-based virtualization feature in Windows Server 2008.

Congressman Hollywood: It's time to revisit the DMCA — Rep. Howard Berman (D-CA), also known as Congressman Hollywood, is one of the most powerful members of the House when it comes to intellectual property issues, so when he muses aloud about "revisiting" the DMCA, people listen.

Apple removes displays from front page of store — I've been saying for a while that Apple is due to announce new displays any day now. Apple's current Cinema Displays were released at WWDC in June 2004 and three and a half years is an eternity in consumer electronics.

Google Answers to Relaunch as Google Q&A — Google intends to relaunch the question-answering service Google Answers, which was closed last year. In Google Answers, "users could post a question (...) and specify how much they were willing to pay for an answer.

Flickr Introduces Traffic Stats for Pro Users — Users with a pro account at Flickr are now able to view a variety of interesting statistics about the viewers of their photos. Heather Champ said in a post on the Flickr blog this morning that the stats are intended to "give you all sorts …